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May God strike me down with a hammer on the head before I write a book with a teach-y goal!
Kate DiCamillo
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Kate DiCamillo
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 25
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Katrina Elizabeth DiCamillo
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This is a wonderful joke to play upon a prisoner, to promise forgiveness.
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Perhaps, said the man, you would like to be lost with us. I have found it much more agreeable to be lost in the company of others.
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But let's not speak of what might have been. Let us speak instead of what is. You are whole.
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